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Sports
More photos from the Shelter Island 10K
June 16, 2013
Education
This week in Shelter Island history
June 7, 2013
Business
Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Cablevision
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: As you may know, Superstorm Sandy knocked out one of LIPA’s two distribution cables from the North Fork. Shelter Island essentially depends on these cables for our electrical service. (There is a cable from the South Fork but it has very limited capability.) This presents very severe challenges...
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Town gets what it wants: Cablevision agrees to five-year deal
It took eight months but Shelter Island finally hammered out a deal with Cablevision for cable TV service to the Island. The negotiating team of Town Attorney Laury Dowd and Councilmen Ed Brown and Peter Reich came away from the table last week across from the Bethpage-based communications behemoth with everything...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO DEC halts shellfish harvesting In 2003 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation closed all of Shelter Island’s creeks, bays and harbors to shellfish harvesting because heavy rainfalls raised concerns about excessive amounts of stormwater runoff that might result in shellfish “taking up” bacteria from warm-blooded animals, potentially...
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South Ferry dredging solution near
South Ferry and Long Island Power Authority are close to an agreement that will allow critical dredging of ferry slips despite the presence of an electrical cable. If all goes ahead as expected, dredging could be done in October, said South Ferry owner Cliff Clark Monday afternoon, reporting on a meeting...
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Town meeting with Cablevision on new pact
Time is as important as money when it comes to ongoing negotiations between the town and Cablevision to provide cable TV service to the Island. It’s not the time between August when the old contract expired and now, two weeks into 2013 without a new deal. All players involved in the...
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Lost cable service? Company will credit
If you’re a Cablevision customer who lacked service during and/or after Superstorm Sandy, you need to notify the utility within thirty days of the time your power was restored to receive a credit or reimbursement for the time you couldn’t access Cablevision. Cablevision bills carry a customer service telephone number customers...
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Football fans rejoice, Cablevision inks deal for NFL Network
Sunday's on the North Fork are about to become a lot more exciting for football fans. Cablevision, the largest local TV provider, reached an agreement to carry the NFL Network as well as the NFL RedZone channel, the company announced Thursday. The NFL Network showcases exclusive games, including a 13-game Thursday Night...
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Prose & Comments: A bridge too small
BY VINCENT NOVAK I worked as an electronic journalism editor and television broadcast engineer for 27 years. I’d like to share some thoughts and insights about our current Cablevision service here and future expectations. The bridge has been built. Not on Route 114. It is the bridge that gets us on to...
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Town Board seeks public comment on Cablevision service
Cablevision's 10-year franchise agreement to provide service on Shelter Island will expire on August 9. Preparing for upcoming negotiations toward a new contract, the Town Board is seeking comment from Islanders about their TV, phone and internet cable service. Councilman Ed Brown has urged residents with any concerns or complaints to submit...
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Shelter Island Town Board, Cablevision to begin franchise talks soon as 10-year agreement nears end
With a 10-year franchise agreement due to expire on August 9, Cablevision and a Shelter Island Town Board subcommittee will start talks on April 12 to reach a new contract, Councilman Ed Brown reported at Tuesday's work session of the Town Board. Mr. Brown urged residents who have any concerns or...
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It’s back: Cablevision deadline looms again
If you’re a Cablevision customer, you may need to get a converter box soon to unscramble your favorite programs. Otherwise, you will see them disappear on Valentine’s Day, February 14, when Cablevision turns off the analog signals it is still transmitting for certain regional channels. Cablevision maintains that digital service improves...
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Editorial: Blurry picture
Cablevision is good at annoying people. It’s doing it lately with its clumsy, contradictory signals about its ongoing and oft-delayed conversion to all-digital transmissions. Grumbling about the company, no matter what it does, is only natural. People will always resent paying a goodly sum every month for their cable service if...
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It’s back: Cable box requirement looms again for Cablevision’s customers on Island
Remember last summer's news about needing to get a cable box on Shelter Island in order to continue to receive programming from Cablevision? It turns out the company's warnings to customers were premature. Now it's at it again, saying that its Shelter Island customers' screens will go blank on Valentine's Day,...
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Cablevision subscribers face end of free programming for extra TVs
BY EMILY GREENBERG Shelter Island residents will soon need a cable box for every TV in their homes in order to continue seeing Cablevision programming. The company has been warning all its subscribers across the New York metro area in recent months by letter that it would stop sending an analog signal...
